--Good point, as I believe the kernel parms are accessible via either dmesg or other means...

--Seriously, thanks for all the firewall tips. I'll be investigating them and passing them on to a friend.

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Quote Originally Posted by eadz
Hmm. I have an idea - How bout a cheatcode - rootpassword

So boot up knoppix with rootpassword=MyPassword and instead of the sudo, you have a root password, that is only used for that session, this way, if someone does get user level access, they don't have root access.
Hehe, you probably want to change that to "rootpassword", and then *interactively* ask a new root password while booting. Unless you like entering a password in plaintext...